MAST - A MASS-SPECTROMETER TELESCOPE FOR STUDIES OF THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF SOLAR, ANOMALOUS, AND GALACTIC COSMIC-RAY NUCLEI

Authors
COOK WR CUMMINGS AC CUMMINGS JR GARRARD TL KECMAN B MEWALDT RA SELESNICK RS STONE EC VONROSENVINGE TT
Citation
Wr. Cook et al., MAST - A MASS-SPECTROMETER TELESCOPE FOR STUDIES OF THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF SOLAR, ANOMALOUS, AND GALACTIC COSMIC-RAY NUCLEI, IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 31(3), 1993, pp. 557-564
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing → ACNP
ISSN journal
01962892
Volume
31
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
557 - 564
Database
ISI
SICI code
0196-2892(1993)31:3<557:M-AMTF>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
The Mass Spectrometer Telescope (MAST) on SAMPEX is designed to provid e high resolution measurements of the isotopic composition of energeti c nuclei from He to Ni (Z = 2 to 28) over the energy range from approx imately 10 to several hundred MeV/nuc. During large solar flares MAST will measure the isotopic abundances of solar energetic particles to d etermine directly the composition of the solar corona, while during so lar quiet times MAST will study the isotopic composition of galactic c osmic rays. In addition, MAST will measure the isotopic composition of both interplanetary and trapped fluxes of anomalous cosmic rays, beli eved to be a sample of the nearby interstellar medium.